X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; q=dns; s= default; b=r+fmyE5okDRkDuK2cuDXLzKH7eJ1EQ5Czj2B5kISXwnkpnrDw1eYs ivnKgdbtV7jfjFqa2b9QucohqfsTTYYXb0UNnpMwDiK0nRG7MJ/1SDgGU76ELDlx +lNruy6QL9KVc2xwVt4ErdawRYYWNQYvaF0mMBoW1qLd6PHDozAOL8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:reply-to :references:mime-version:content-type:in-reply-to; s=default; bh=9VmD+AZfgdQ6Aw/TZsRCqDf4n58=; b=FqYyi2LeLRGLUblUPHr1WF6cziBY gL1L2hqTMfKPd0ho+rFrqTCPKw7O58KS75b5pV9BFwZ/q+RNKVF0yMoyB57cH+lT Ysf/gg9fB0tsuPcSOm5LHD+yaRydxAFe/hhHiZvKMVLaQP2eqQV2Dr4LdNygwOnS YGYSxEvUIbKcb1U= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse AT dyndns DOT com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/P83pibOrbWaffZpKGL2NF Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 01:49:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: BLODA extension: console interoperability Message-ID: <20130726054906.GC477@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <51F1A863 DOT 8060403 AT etr-usa DOT com> <51F1AF90 DOT 3080409 AT cygwin DOT com> <51F1F7B4 DOT 4060202 AT etr-usa DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:44:02AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: >On 26 July 2013 05:14, Warren Young wrote: >> On 7/25/2013 17:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >>> >>> I might personally prefer to describe and list them differently. >> >> >> DONOPWOL: >> >> DOes >> NOt >> Play >> Well with >> Others >> List > >I don't think that's fair, since such apps were designed for the >Windows console, without being aware of Cygwin's pipe-based ptys. And >unfortunately that list would be very long anyway: basically anything >interactive that hasn't been explicitly adapted to Cygwin ptys, for >example by disabling buffering and not relying on the console's >history facility. > >Speaking of which: somebody on the mintty mailing list would like to >make a Windows program Cygwin-aware by detecting whether it's running >in a Cygwin terminal (as opposed to having its input or output >redirected to plain pipes). Does anyone know a way to do this? Why not just always flush stdout if it's opened on a pipe? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple